Teaching a reasonable balance of the good and bad in American history is not that hard, it just takes someone able to deal with moral complexity, which the new monomania rules out as a matter of principle
It's also important that we convey both the substantive good and bad and the capacity to deal with moral complexity into young people. Those who say it doesn't matter because nobody learns anything anyway are just being the worst kind of contrarian.
I'm totally fine with the message that much of the integration of ethnonational and religious diversity in the US was premised upon the exclusion of a racialized underclass, and those who availed themselves of those benefits owe a debt to that group
This does NOT mean that merit doesn't exist, rules and systems are all irremediably polluted with racism, and everything needs to be dismantled and transformed
And here's the thing -- everybody agrees with me, but I'm suddenly I'm some "anti-woke crusader" because I'm willing to say it aloud
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